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A major marijuana growing operation was raided on federal land in the Los Padres National Forest last week. The pot field was spotted by U.S. Forest Service helicopters conducting surveillance…Read More

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This week as her special guest from the arts Ruth Copland is pleased to be interviewing Darren Korb, award-winning audio director, song-writer, and composer. Darren is audio director at independent…Read More

Santa Cruz > > Last fall, when Santa Cruz County started talking about how to manage marijuana grows, which eventually led to a short-lived ban on cultivation, local industry insider Christopher Carr…Read More

This week as her special guest from the arts Ruth Copland is pleased to be interviewing William Finnegan award-winning literary journalist and narrative non-fiction author. If you enjoy the interview…Read More

With Dr. Joel Wallach and Doug Winfrey

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A biomedical research pioneer, Dr. Joel D. Wallach spent more than 40 years in the field of Veterinary Medicine, observing and researching the effects of individual nutrients on animal health, before becoming a Naturopathic Physician in 1982. Today, Dr. Wallach is renowned for his groundbreaking research on the health benefits of selenium and other minerals. He currently dedicates his time to lecturing throughout the world on the therapeutic benefits of vitamins and minerals, and on lobbying the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on behalf of the dietary supplement industry.

With with Greg and Marleen

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We love and enjoy everything with food, and the preparation! During our shows, we will showcase and talk about the following:

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- And share innovative ideas so we can keep our time in the kitchen exciting and fun.

With Michael Olson

It's a fact: 100% of your audience eats food, but only a very small percentage of your audience knows from where their food comes!

Every week, as he has for over 940 weeks, award-winning author and host Michael Olson brings the most important issues of our lives to the table for an hour of what's-eating-what-radio that entertains listeners and grows audience.

How will the price of fuel affect the price of food? Is it safe to eat genetically-engineered corn? Will we have to compete with the Chinese for food?

With Ruth Copland

Ruth Copland presents a two-hour show with an interview/talk format. In the first hour, we discuss all kinds of topics from all kinds of angles attempting to see if we have more in common than divides us, focusing on debate rather than one-sided conversations. We discuss topics with local relevance and global significance. In the second hour, we keep a balance between the left and right brain by featuring stimulating in-depth interviews with talented local, national, and international guests from all areas of the arts.

With Rockelle and MC Hager

Our shows feature positive solutions and life-loving, uplifting content... what people do for the love of it! We feature positive news, informative interviews with dynamic guests, life-affirming messages, inspirational music, satirical comedy, and the best of what our global community has to offer. We are talk radio in a variety show format.

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KSCO radio in Santa Cruz, California brings you a variety of hosts discussing local and national topics.

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With Georgia Peach

Georgia will entertain and inform you while she delights you with her Southern charm and sharp wit. She's an unapologetic common-sense conservative who isn't afraid to ruffle the feathers of the powers-that-be with her intelligent commentary and unabashed sense of humor.

With Pamela Fugitt-Hetrick

Money Moves is all about the one you love the most... your money! Topics include investing, saving, taxes, insurance and so much more. We'll answer your questions about your money and making it work for you.

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With Neil Pearlberg

Brought to you by local surf writer Neil Pearlberg, and skate shop owner Terry Campion. The talk show focuses on everything surﬁng and skateboarding with special guests that you can call in to ask your question. There is local live music, a trivia contest, and up-to-date news of Santa Cruz surf and skate cultures.

With Steph Taylor and Robert Watson

Out in Santa Cruz is a locally-produced LGBTQ talk show covering news of the week & sharing the diverse voices of the queer community. Co-hosted by Steph Taylor & Rob Watson. Join us live Saturday nights 7-8pm here on KSCO AM 1080.

With Mr. Logic

Airing on KSCO 1080 AM, Santa Cruz's news/talk radio and one of the last privately owned radio stations in the United States, We've Got Your Back will get the conversation going about the growing back pain epidemic in our country. Every week, Dr. Eric and Ben will discuss topics like how back pain occurs, treatment and prevention techniques, the growing concern for "sitting disease" and how it affects the back, the corporate ramifications of not having a wellness program that encourages employee physical activity, and much more.

With Janine Avila & Numa Trepanier

The Avilanche Power Hour is all about YOU and want is going on in your life!! We are going to solve problems, talk about what matters to you most in your life! No politics, religion or whining allowed!!

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With Christopher Carr

TThe Cannabis Connection provides stimulating conversation with professionals, activists, researchers and experts striving to demystify common misconceptions about Cannabis. “Our goal is to educate and open a dialogue surrounding the potential that this plant provides to treat ailments but also heal our society from a social and economic standpoint,” explains host Christopher Carr. “Through conversation and providing a place to answer questions, introduce new ideas and provide empirical evidence of the benefits this plant provides we hope to remedy the negative social stigma surrounding Cannabis.”

Times are changing and Cannabis prohibition is coming to an end. With legalization approaching it is obvious the time to talk Cannabis is now.

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Coach's Decision is a sports talk radio program on KSCO 1080 AM based in Santa Cruz, CA. Hosts Thomas Todd and Joaquin Nagle discuss national sports topics and their favorite Bay Area teams. The show features appearances by athletes, writers, bloggers and some of their very best friends. Listen live Wednesdays at 8 pm, or listen on YouTube Thursday mornings.

The following KSCO commentary is an encore presentation. Here is Kay Zwerling:

Last week I received an urgent letter for funds to support Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. It appears that the powers that be do not like the fact that Arpaio is being too successful in his job.

Arpaio is being punished for being “tough on crime”.

He continues to fight to stop illegal immigration, and he forces prisoners to wear pink jump suits, and he cracks down on the criminal wave coming across our southern border with Mexico.

According to the Wall Street Journal, since February 2007, Sheriff Arpaio has arrested about 30,000 illegal immigrants, and the administration is now attempting to curb the powers of this true American. Now, Obama wants to discredit Arpaio, silence him, and remove him from his job.

Why, you might wonder, would our leader who promised change, honesty, and transparency want to discard the Sheriff who is doing such a good job for our Country?

Well, here is the simple answer – Liberals led by the ACLU have filed 2,700 lawsuits against Sheriff Joe – accusing him of illegally profiling Latinos.

But, they are indeed illegal and they are Latinos from Mexico, and that is not profiling.

Also, President Obama has been doing a dismal job as President and he knows that if he has any chance of remaining in office for more than one term – clearly he must do everything in his power to convince the Country to give amnesty to the illegal immigrants who are here. If that happens, of course, those new Americans will keep him in office for two terms.

Along with amnesty, the following will happen: The illegals will expect Welfare benefits, free healthcare, free hospitalization for childbirths, and free schooling in Spanish. And, who will pay for those perks? You and me!

Most Americans do not get these taxpayer-funded handouts.

Why should those who come here illegally get them?

The Left likes to think there are 11 million illegals here.

That was the estimate eight years ago. The amount could now be closer to 29 million.

To make this wonderful tough honest American, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the fall guy for Obama’s agenda, I say it stinks!

Sheriff Joe should remain where he is, and remind Congress that they are not serving time in a hotel, and continue to expose illegals.

And, We the People should support Arizona – and remain alert, and not allow amnesty for illegals, and the U.S. government should close the borders!

(Bill Graff says): “Kay reports: Not much in Joe Arpaio’s situation has changed almost two years later.”

This is chuckle time. Because most of us are stressed out with worry about the direction of our beloved Country, let’s take out a few moments to laugh. My son Lou shared this one with me, and it is called “Law dilemma” –

A young law student having failed his law exam goes up to his crusty old professor who was renowned for his razor-sharp legal mind.

Student: Sir, do you really understand everything about this subject?

Professor: Actually I probably do, otherwise I would not be a professor, would I?

Student: OK, so I would like to ask you a question. If you can give me the correct answer, I will accept my mark as it is. If you cannot give me the correct answer, however, you have to give me an A. OK?

The professor agreed, and the student asked him the following question: “What is legal but not logical – logical but not legal – and neither logical nor legal?”

The professor thought about it for some time, and could not answer that question.

So, finally he gives up and changes the student’s failing mark to an A as agreed, and the student goes away very pleased.

The professor continues to wrack his brain over the question all afternoon, but still cannot get the answer, so finally he calls in a group of his brightest students and tells them he has a really really tough question to answer, “What is legal but not logical – logical but not legal – and neither logical nor legal?”

To the professor’s surprise and embarrassment, all the students immediately raised their hands.

“Alright,” said the professor, and asked his favorite student to answer.

“It is quite easy, sir,” says the student, “You see, you are 75-years-old, married to a 30-year-old woman, which is legal but not logical. Your wife has a 22-year-old lover, which is logical but not legal. And, your wife’s lover failed his exam, but you have just given him an A, which is neither legal nor logical.”

Because of the KGO disruptive episode a while ago, our listenership has grown enormously, for which we are delighted and grateful.

Most of the new listeners do so via the internet, so MZ has happily obtained a very substantial amount of bandwidth to accommodate them, and because of the newcomers I shall now occasionally broadcast more of the Commentaries from my book, like now –

This was broadcast in September 2008, with additions now, and it is just as relevant today –

The sad current fact is that there no longer is a true media in our Country. The news that We the People are getting is no longer honest and balanced. It is a planned liberal machine committed to making Barack Obama President, again. And, it furthers the motto of leftist extremists, which is “The end always justifies the means.”

In 2008, the McCain campaign was barely covered, and then mostly to ridicule Sarah Palin.

The public unfairly was not getting the real truth. The deck was stacked. It is the same now.

Obama never held an executive job in his life. While in Congress, he voted Present, most of the time.

As President, who must make clear, fast decisions, Obama has been a dismal failure.

He cannot make fast decisions – in fact, he is almost incapable of making any decisions.

He puts most of them off, hopefully until his next four years.

Now, please listen to this urgent request from Tom Winter, President and Editor in Chief of Human Events, a credible conservative Washington, D.C., weekly:

Dear Conservative Friends, They say the truth hurts – in Obama’s case, it is devastating.Not surprisingly, the BIG media has kept the American public blind to the truth about Obama including: The fact that a corrupt Chicago machine politician “made a U.S. Senator out of Barack Obama”.Also, how Obama won his first election by having his lawyers knock all his opponents off the ballot on technicalities – that is a great tool for shady lawyers. Then, the Tony Rezko connection “I have never done any favors for him”, says Obama, about convicted developer Tony Rezko. Oh, but yes he has. Then, Obama’s connection to ACORN, the ultra liberal tough organization, which started many years ago with good intentions and which supposedly bullied banks recently to make subprime loans to unqualified people. Tom Winter wants to expose the many skeletons in Obama’s closet by sending specifically to young people, especially those on college campuses, the editorial supplement called “The Truth About Obama, what every citizen needs to know.”

Finally, these are very critical times in our Country! We must not allow these BIG MEDIA LYING SCOUNDRELS and liberal college professors to succeed in keeping this incompetent candidate in the White House for another four years. If that happens, we will lose our Country to socialism.

How can I not share this gem from an unknown author who must have spent considerable time to research all the following?

To President Barack Hussein Obama and all 535 voting members of this Legislature – and to keep it fair, let’s go back a number of decades of U.S. government leaders.

It is apparent that many of you must be incompetent. 1. The USPS (that is the Post Office) was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right, and it is broke.2. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right, and it is broke.3. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right, and it is broke.4. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right, and both of them are broke.5. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right, and it is broke.6. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24B per year and we import more oil than ever before, and now gas is approaching $5 per gallon. You have had 32 years to get it right, and it is an abysmal failure.

You have failed in every "government service" you have initiated with enthusiasm while overspending our tax dollars.

And, now you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run healthcare system called Obamacare?! We are broke.

In the last several decades, we have provided foreign aid to many countries, some not even our friends.

America – a Country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without needed medications, and mentally ill without treatment, etc.

If all of the foregoing information is indeed true, we Americans must vote in more competent leaders with more compassion for our own needy.